Dr Bob Muid

Dr Robert (Bob) Muid worked in education for over three decades - as researcher, teacher and manager. He started his career in 1970 at the pharmaceutical manufacturers May & Baker Ltd, in the biochemistry research laboratories. He joined the staff at University College London, Pharmacology Department in 1974 working as an immunopharmacology technician with Dr M.Maureen Dale (of Rang & Dale fame). He later became a senior experimental officer and obtained his PhD in the Department of Pharmacology.

In1994 he took over the post of Pharmacology Department Manager, under the headships of Prof. David A. Brown, FRS and then Prof. Trevor G. Smart, and had responsibility for the finance, support staff, buildings, website and computing until the disestablishment of the Department in 2008.

Apart from his departmental duties he worked closely with the Information Systems Division and was reponsible for the deployment of University College London's computer anti-virus software and from August 2006 was the administrator for the plagiarism detection service, Turnitin, at UCL.

After the disestablishment of the Pharmacology Department in 2008 he became IT Manager for the Division of Biosciences within the Faculty of Life Sciences until his retirement in 2010.

From 1996 until the present he also managed G23 Instruments.

Bob Muid holds a Ph.D. in Immunopharmacology from the University of London (UCL). The emphasis of his prior research was the role of human neutrophils (white blood cells) in both killing tumour cells and the auto-immune disease rheumatoid arthritis via the generation of toxic oxygen radicals. He has published multiple peer-reviewed manuscripts on the topic.